From Ms. Magazine. https://tinyurl.com/t39c57t Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, almost nine out of 10 men and women around the world hold some sort of bias against women, according to new findings published on Thursday from the UN Development Programmme (UNDP). The first of its kind, the UNDP Gender Social Norms Index analyzed […]
For the 1st Time, Architecture’s Most Prestigious Prize is Awarded to 2 Women
Yvonne Farrell: ” . . . how we imagine ourselves optimistically with all the potential that architecture inherently has — to make new worlds and to make new futures.” By Neda Ullaby, NPR News, March 3, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811030441/in-a-first-architectures-most-prestigious-prize-is-awarded-to-two-women In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture […]
💟 and ☮️ for International Women’s Day
www.voiceoffreedom.ca March 8th, 2020, is International Women’s Day. This year, leading up to the day, on the day of, and even the day after, we see planned protests around the world saying “Enough!” to violence and gender inequality. The passion for this change comes from escalating violence and a collective heart conscious desire for Love […]
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme: #EachforEqual
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme is #EachforEqual https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme An equal world is an enabled world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can actively choose to broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender-equal world. […]
International Women’s Day 2020 — Red Hands, Shoes, Masks & Dresses — “Enough Violence!”
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms
Two articles on sport-wide and individual victories. CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms By Signa Butler, CBC, March 06, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/iwd/cbc-sports-commits-to-gender-balanced-sports-coverage-1.5487976 ‘One of the critical pieces to keeping girls in sport is representation’ All it took for Olympic moguls champion Jennifer Heil to get into sports was a Sports Illustrated cover at […]
Afghan Mayor Honored as ‘Woman of Courage’ Implores Pompeo to Uphold Women’s Rights After Taliban Deal
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 4, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/afghan-women-us-taliban-deal/index.html Washington (CNN) One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an uncertain future in the wake of the US-Taliban agreement. […]
March 9th – Women in Mexico Withdraw for Gender Rights
“No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street. “A country without women, for one day. “An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the […]
Indigenous Women Standing for Rights and Community
www.voiceoffreedom.ca From protesting to building tiny houses, Indigenous women are the on the front-lines of change. Below are 2 posts illustrating their courage. Women are the Face of Mohawk Resistance Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette, March 1, 2020 https://popularresistance.org/women-are-the-face-of-mohawk-resistance/ On the front lines of the Indigenous resistance movement, it is young women — born after the […]
Citizen’s Basic Income: A Response to Poverty
By Citizens Basic Income Trust, February 27, 2020 https://citizensincome.org/news/citizens-basic-income-a-response-to-poverty ATD Fourth World has published the results of its Understanding Poverty in all its Forms research project: an international project that is asking people in poverty what for them are its most important dimensions. A report has now been published on findings for the UK: https://atd-uk.org/projects-campaigns/understanding-poverty. […]
Standing Up for Indigenous Land Rights in Canada, Brazil, and California
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
Texas Church to Donate $13 Million to Help Those Hurt by Their Slave-Owning, Confederate-Supporting History
Bishop C. Andrew Doyle Texas Church to Donate $13 Million to Help Those Hurt by Their Slave-Owning, Confederate-Supporting History By Annie Reneau https://tinyurl.com/uhc6zde The first bishop elected to the Episcopal Diocese of Texas was a slave owner who pushed for loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War. The first church in the diocese, Christ Episcopal Church […]
What is Spiritual Currency? Part 3/3
(Continued from Part 2, yesterday.) All well and good. But what has all of this to do with the Reval and everything that falls out of it? Michael is adamant that what is being revalued that is of most importance is our spiritual currency; in other words, our own readiness, willingness, and ability to value […]
What is Spiritual Currency? Part 2/3
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) If we as a society have not reached a collective level of self-worth that allows the Reval to do any good, Michael says, heaven will not release the funds. In 2015, he observed that “there are so many that have not reached a place of self-worth that they were not […]
Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars
This is an issue in Canada (and the UK according to my friend, Mark, on Facebook). America’s Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars “Ten psychiatrist jobs have gone unfilled for two years.” By Eric Westervelt and Liz Baker, NPR, February 25 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/805469776/americas-mental-health-crisis-hidden-behind-bars It’s recreation time at a Los Angeles County jail known as the Twin […]
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